Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > [ Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote on Tue 21.Aug'12 at 20:49:11 +0200 ] > >> When reading >> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Java-SE-7-Update-6-hands-OS-X-support-to-Oracle-1667714.html >> it seems as if the one has to manually upgrade to this version while >> future upgrades are then done automagically by Oracle. >> >> Now, there are 2 (two) versions : JRE & JDK. >> Which version should one install in order to best achive support for >> MacPorts ? > > The JRE is the Run Time Environment which enables you, or rather certain > applications like browsers, etc., to run java programs. The JDK is the Java > Development Kit which includes the JRE but also has a compiler and some other > tools that enable you to actually develop java programs. > > So, if you simply want to run java stuff, you only need the JRE. If you want > to write and compile java code then you need the JDK.
I know that, but that doen't answer my question. -- Bjarne D Mathiesen København N ; Danmark ; Europa ---------------------------------------------------------------------- denne besked er skrevet i et totalt M$-frit miljø MacOS X 10.8.0 Mountain Lion ; 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 ; 16GB 1067MHz DDR3 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
